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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39788 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

catch'dcatched

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it
95 times in 67 works
Consistency
96.9% (95 of 98)
Reach if approved
~103 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: catched
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
98 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (95 changes in 67 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 95)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … keeps it under the Power of Satan. If one Leg of a Bird be catch'dcatched in the Net, 'tis as surely held as if its whole Body were entangled …
    With rule
    … keeps it under the Power of Satan. If one Leg of a Bird be catch'dcatched in the Net, 'tis as surely held as if its whole Body were entangled …

    William Bates · Sermons Preached on Several Occasions · p. 244 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … comfortable to you, but certainly you are upon a ſnare, and you may be catch'dcatched and undone for ever, though perhaps thou haſt eſcap'd all this while, yet thou …
    With rule
    … comfortable to you, but certainly you are upon a ſnare, and you may be catch'dcatched and undone for ever, though perhaps thou haſt eſcap'd all this while, yet thou …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · Two Treatises · p. 292 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … dutiful to us. You may see that these Phanatick Birds are loth to be catch'dcatched in our nets, for we could catch but one of them with our allurements …
    With rule
    … dutiful to us. You may see that these Phanatick Birds are loth to be catch'dcatched in our nets, for we could catch but one of them with our allurements …

    Thomas Ford · The Bishops Condemned out of their Own Mouths · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſaid well, that from all Words and Actions, there were two Handles to be catch'dcatched hold of, a Good and a Bad. The Virtuous interpret all to the beſt …
    With rule
    … ſaid well, that from all Words and Actions, there were two Handles to be catch'dcatched hold of, a Good and a Bad. The Virtuous interpret all to the beſt …

    John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … great Saints have contended with the Devil and worſted him; as St. Dunſtan, who catch'dcatched him by the Noſe with a pair of hot Tongs, and plucked him ſo …
    With rule
    … great Saints have contended with the Devil and worſted him; as St. Dunſtan, who catch'dcatched him by the Noſe with a pair of hot Tongs, and plucked him ſo …

    Richard Mayo · Conference Between a Papist and a Jew 1 · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … intolerably weak and ſophiſtica… that any conſiderate man ought to be aſham'd to be catch'dcatched by it. For either it is good of it ſelf and ſufficient to perſwade …
    With rule
    … intolerably weak and ſophiſtica… that any conſiderate man ought to be aſham'd to be catch'dcatched by it. For either it is good of it ſelf and ſufficient to perſwade …

    John Tillotson · Sermon Preached at White-Hall Before His Late Majesty · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … intolerably weak and ſophiſtical, that any conſiderate man ought to be aſham'd to be catch'dcatched by it. For either it is good of it ſelf, and ſufficient to perſwade …
    With rule
    … intolerably weak and ſophiſtical, that any conſiderate man ought to be aſham'd to be catch'dcatched by it. For either it is good of it ſelf, and ſufficient to perſwade …

    John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 2 · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … before the Mouth of a Cannon while it is ſpitting Fire, or to have catch'dcatched hold of a Thunderbolt as it comes roaring down from the Clouds, than to …
    With rule
    … before the Mouth of a Cannon while it is ſpitting Fire, or to have catch'dcatched hold of a Thunderbolt as it comes roaring down from the Clouds, than to …

    John Scott · The Christian Life 2 · p. 290 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace A27637

  • Printed
    … Feet; when his Feet are a Net to themſelves, he muſt be Scandaliſed, and Catch'dCatched wherever he goes. There is no Senſe ſo grave, and ſeriouſly compos'd, but a …
    With rule
    … Feet; when his Feet are a Net to themſelves, he muſt be Scandaliſed, and Catch'dCatched wherever he goes. There is no Senſe ſo grave, and ſeriouſly compos'd, but a …

    Thomas Beverley · The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace · p. 73 · Open in the reader